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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly…
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I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the…
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Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…
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Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no…
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It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical…
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The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
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I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of…
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The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one…
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The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill…
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The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except…
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They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard…
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Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…
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Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup…
— Hugo Chavez
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Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some…
— Eric Alterman
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To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.
— Michael Ignatieff
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The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a…
— Pete Hamill
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A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations…
— David Talbot
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All problems, depressions, wars, disasters, assassinations, all of them were planned, caused, instigated, and implemented by the International Bankers and their attempt…
— John F. Kennedy
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I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln…
— Sarah Vowell
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For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world,…
— Jo Nesbo
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Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public…
— Rosa Luxemburg
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The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill…
— Henry Walter Bates
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For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was…
— Frank Delaney
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The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.
— Akhmad Kadyrov
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